NEWS IN BRIEF

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3175, 9 December 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF

The notes of birds, while corresponding with our musical scale, also include vibrations occupying the intervals between our notes.

Hideo Takahira, of Tokio, has dis- j covered that a man sft. 6in. in height has a skin surface measuring approximately 18 square feet. To commemorate Sir Francis Drake's association with the River Medway, a model of his famous ship, the Golden Hind, has been hung in the- Dockyard Church at Chatham. This ship was the , first English vessel to sail round the world. Intellectual men are most popular as prospective husbands, according to a census taken at one women's college, with home-lovers and athletes as a second choice. Scrap metal, including old bicycle spokes and bits of sheet metal, have been used by a pair of pigeons for building their nest in the yard of a Greenwich metal merchant. The finished article weighs about 221b. Throughout the world 672,486 girls and women now belong to the Girl Guides movement. The figure represents an increase of 59,277 on the number for last year. In the British Isles alone there are 402,934 Guides and Guiders. So small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye save as a tiny speck in the middle of a piece of glass, a photograph was recently on show in London. One hundred of these would occupy about the space of a pin's head. Forty years ago Mr L. Foster, of Tebworth, Bedfordshire, bought a coffin for half a crown, and kept it under his bed because he thought he was going to die of quinsy. He recovered, resold the coffin for eight shillings, and it is now used for storing odds and ends.